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All the Real Girls

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This is a romance movie, to beat all romance movies. THe thing i love about this movie is the storyline of it, not that i would give the movie away by telling it but to just say that its modern and none of those cheesy mediocre played out storyline that has a lot of star named actors with no talent, no this movie does not have any of that rather it has talent and a lot of it. The main character of the movie is a surprisingly good actor although i have not seen him in any other movie, he is also the co-writer of the movie, he is also very hot. I think that this is Zooey Deshchenel's greatest film ever she is so sweet and inocent in it that you just fall in love in her too. So All the real girls is about this girl (zooey) who comes back to her small hometown after many years at an all girls bording school, she falls in love with her very protective older brother's best friend. Their love for each other is so perfect and innocent that it just makes you oozze for love and makes you think that there might be love in this world after all. i'm not one for romantic lovey dovey movies but i this isn't one of those just a really good movie, go and see it with a loved one.

Funny thing about filmmaking. Hollywood generally reduces small town folk to incestuous cannibals who want to capture us city folk then kill us, rape us and cook us up in a large vat. Then Indie films come along, take those same small town people and glorify their lives. I guess indie directors want to be outsiders... or at least pretend to be. The odd thing is that the type of people in the film would never actually watch this movie.

Anyway "All the Real Girls" is a decent movie I guess in that it portrays the charcters and relationships in a fairly real manner which is something rarely done well in films these days. Think about it... a smalltown Romeo swimming in his little pond is going to have a vicious rep and that's going to cause some issues. Furthermore, the college drop-out come home is likely to fall into the same charms that many of those other women did. The question then is can he change and commit when he thinks he's falling in love? And if so, will anyone ever believe him? Both great questions.

The problem though is that this movie is at times painfully slow. While it may be a bit necessary for the full development of the characters it is a bit tedious. I had great trouble over the course of many weeks actually piecing the entire thing together... no chance a human can watch this in 1 sitting. Good movie, just a question of whether you'll think the payoff was worth the pain.

I had been meaning to see this movie in London because of the praiseworthy and intriguingly personal reviews I had read in the paper press. I missed it of course, seeing as it was ever only playing at 1PM showings at one or zero inordinately expensive Central London cinemas.

This is a shame because it is one of the most effecting movies I have seen in roughly a week (Lost in Translation and Girl With A pearl Earring are both excellent also) and more people deserve to see it.

A beautiful story of a boy and a girl in love. That's it. It's amazingly rare to find special relationships such as love when young as accurately portrayed in modern cinema as this film achieves.

The female role played by Zooey Deschanel is tender and subtle while the male role played by Paul Schraider is strong yet emotional. You couldn't ask for a better on screen chemistry between, all about looks, what is not said, the silences.

The heartache and longing is all there also, as well as the comic relief (it ain't all weepy and heavy sighs).

Go buy this film, it is well worth it, you'll be talking about it with friends afterwards.

The extras are good also, the writer and director David Gordon Green is a revelation, full of insight and intellectual depth about what he wanted to achieve, it makes you feel contented that there is a guy out there who is prepared to challenge film-making assumptions. Watch this guy for the future.

ALL THE REAL GIRLS, the new romantic drama by David Gordon Green, is one of those rare films that gets love right. It is a tender, compelling, and haunting love story with disturbingly strong performances.

Paul Schneider heads the cast as Paul, a local kid with a bad reputation for toying around with several women. He soon finds himself falling truly in his best friend's (Shea Whigam) beloved sister, Noel (Zooey Deschanel). Noel has never been in a serious relationship, and neither has Paul. But... will their individual flaws ruin their only chance at love?

Schneider is very good as the torn Paul. You can see his transformation into a young man trying to get his life on track. Zooey Deschanel is stunning in every way, and it is so easy to see why Paul is willing to change himself for her. I sense a star in the making...

Shea Whigam is remarkable as Tip, Paul's "partner in crime". Observe his facial expressions when he announces to Paul that his girlfriend is expecting a child. An amazing performance. Last but not least, Patricia Clarkson turns in yet another fine supporting turn as Paul's long-suffering mother. Elvira is a women who is trying so hard to hold on to what she has, while at the same time... striving for something more.

REAL GIRLS is a film about the awkward and heartbreaking nature of raw and naive love. It is gentle, bittersweet, unflinching... and so damn powerful.

This was a nice break from your typical teenage love stories. Although those are nice, and are a great form of light entertainment, David Gordon Greene was more ambitious with this picture.

Young love is heartwrenching, and ultimately someone will get their heart broken. When you are young and dealing with love, you are often confused as to what you feel, and will make rash decisions that will change your life forever. But once again ultimately someone is going to have their heart broken when you have people falling head over heels in love with each other.

In this movie, David Gordon Greene does an unbelievable job of capturing the feeling of falling in love and the devastating heartbreak that goes along with it. Real life is a rollercoaster, and this movie takes the audience along for the ride. It is not for everyone, but if you have forgotten what it felt like to be young and in love this movie is for you.

David Gordon Green's follow-up to his fab debut George Washington is a sensitive exploration of young love in a Southern mill town. Paul, Paul Schneider, is a 20-year-old rake who has slept with all the available girls in his town. But when he falls in love with 18-year-old virgin Noel, Zooey Deschanel, his emotional life suddenly blossoms. The complication is that Paul's best friend is also Noel's brother and so naturally protective of his relatively sheltered sister. An intelligent, delicate movie that steers clear of every cliche of teenage sexuality to ask some very pertinent questions about emotional responsibility and other aspects of love.

I didn't like this movie because the title provides only a cursory idea of what the movie is about and the film is idiosycratic in ways that are unforgivable. First, the film is mostly about one guy who used to be a womanizer and is trying to change his ways with a girl that is his ideal of the savior. When that doesn't work out he becomes a mess that he doesn't completely recover from. The film is about the characters overcoming their idylic obsessions and settling for what's really there. There's a sense of settling at the end, however it's the main character who settles himself down and not his relationship with the girl, or his mother. I was also surprised that women didn't have main roles in this film considering the title, but the film isn't really interested in them. They only exist to show the main character's flaws. A very unsatisfactory film is the result.

What a lovely and bittersweet little movie. Itï¿s a small film, framed as a small-town romance, the ups and downs of a relationship that might have been forever ï¿ but wasnï¿t ï¿ and all the reasons why. Wonderfully acted in a way that makes the dialogue feel improvised and spontaneous, All the Real Girls stars Paul Schneider playing a guy whose total focus has been to bed as many of the townï¿s girls as possible, so many that heï¿s lost count. Then he falls, and falls hard for the sister of one of his friends, a character played with real skill by Zooey Deschanel. For the first time in his life, Paul sees sex as an expression of love, not just lust.
Itï¿s a good one.

These guys got it right...almost. They do a great job capturing the innocence, awkwardness, and cocky assuredness of young adolescence in a "truth of moment" sort of way. The script and cinematography are the real strengths as you feel you're catching a young director at his last moment before the world takes notice. Another fitting description, "I am a student of Terrence Malick" - the visual poetry is balanced by language vs. still photos. Nature and the human element personified. The film plays out as star-crossed lovers grapple with their past transgressions, first real love, and come face-to-face with the real culprits - themselves. Very seldom is there room in a relationship for both parties to be ultra cool and hip as we soon find out. Their relationship is affected by family and friends alike as these people feel almost hillbilly close. Shot in the hills of North Carolina, the timeless look and feel serve as a private invitation to participate in their mistakes and joys. There is a tad of the unbelievable here though. Many of the lines are a bit rich for these backwoods yahoos and goofballs. We asked to accept these folk are wise beyond their years, but the whole group of them at the same time? Doubtful. It's also obvious this tight group of crew and cast have worked together before. The cohesion that takes place is subliminal, unspoken, and understood as the initial scene immediately draws you in. David Gordon Green as a director is a heartbeat away from being offered a big, blockbuster Hollywood script. As he has a gift, let's hope young Green can resist the huge temptation and continue to tell these honest, poignant, personal, and very touching tales. A rare and wonderful project brought to life should be shared with someone you love - past, present, or future.

Writer/director David Gordon Green's All The Real Girls tries to capture the esscence of young love, sort of the way Endless Love, tried to decades ago. To a certain extent the 2003 film does just that. It's too bad that the script has to have its share of contrived dialogue that can get in the way of the good stuff.

In a sleepy little mill town in North Carolina, Paul (Paul Schneider, who also contributed to the film's story) is the town Romeo. But when his best friend Tip's (Shea Whigham) sister Noel (Zooey Deschanel) returns home from a boarding school, he finds himself falling hard for her innocent charms. In spite of her lack of experience and the violent protests of her brother, the two find themselves in a sweet, dreamy and all-consuming love.

Despite some dreadfull dialogue that seems forced, there's enough sparks between Schneider and Deschanel, to see it through. The film also captures the sleepy town feel and its locales almost become characters in the movie. Director David Gordon Green tries to make this film a bit different in the way he put it all together and for the most part, this stuff works as well.

The DVD has an Ok audio commentary by the director and cast members. At times there's some of the self importance syndrome speak, but, not enough to really bother me. A few deleted scenes are included, most of which, don't add much, and were wisely left on the cutting room floor. The featurette "Improv and Ensemble: The Evolution of a Film", dicusses the process of how the film came together, fairly standard if you ask me. The theatrical trailer rounds out the disc's bonus material.

In the end, All The Real Girls, is worth a peek. This, despite verbage problems. The old saying, "It's not what you say, it's how you say it", certainly applies